over the limit Definition

limit
noun

1. A point, degree, amount or boundary, especially one which cannot or should not be passed.

Thesaurus: border, boundary, perimeter, periphery, rim, confine, bound, boundary line; threshold, extent, saturation point, maximum, quota, ceiling, limitation, curb.
2. A restriction.
3. stock exchange.
A predetermined price at which a broker is instructed to buy or sell.
4. math.
In calculus: a value that is approached increasingly closely, but never reached.
5. The boundary or edge of an area.

Example: city limits
6. The greatest or smallest extent, degree, etc allowed.
7. colloq, sometimes facetious
Someone or something that is intolerable or extremely annoying.
Form: the limit

verb limited, limiting

1. To be a limit or boundary to someone or something.

Thesaurus: bound, confine, circumscribe, demarcate.
2. To restrict.

Thesaurus: restrain, restrict, bound, confine, constrain, curb.

Derivative: limitable
adj

Derivative: limiter
noun

Derivative: limitary
adj

Idiom: off limits

Out of bounds.

Idiom: over the limit

(of someone who has been driving) registering more than the permitted level of alcohol in the blood;

Exceeding the legal speed limit.

Idiom: within limits

With only a moderate degree of freedom.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin limes boundary.